Creatures, 2012, rope, threads, beads, wire, fabric scraps, ribbon, silk, confetti, sequins, polyfil stuffing, (image courtesy Alex Falkiner)
Alex Falkiner (aka Alfalky) has created a true bubble of visual delight and is someone who really blends the fields of art, craft, design and publishing. Alex predominantly works with textiles, also exploring with found materials, paper and text. She makes baskets, jewellery, sculpture, tea towels and zines!
Her colour palate is particularly exciting; many of her small sculptural works play with primary colours that appear childlike and playful yet they present in unusual forms and incorporate various found materials like thread, rope, sequins and domestic linen. The contrast of scattered and sporadic construction with more stylised stitch-work functions to further enhance the energy in Alex's work.
2013 marks a series of exhibitions for Alex, with a feature in Gaffa's Curio Collectors Cabinet earlier this year, Knit, Knot, Weave at Gallery Lane Cove, and later this month in Sydney is Half Way at COFA Space & Kudos Gallery and Stitch: The art of Craft at Viewpoint Gallery in Bendigo (VIC).
See more here:
http://www.alexfalkiner.com/
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